Effects of Creative Teaching Method for Nursing Ethics Codes' Education: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Nurses experience a variety of ethical challenges during their careers. Then to reduce these challenges, they need to improve their knowledge and attitude regarding nursing ethics. Hence this study was done aimed to investigate the effect of nursing ethics codes education on nurses' knowledge and attitudes in the adult ward of Kerman selected hospitals.

In this quasi-experimental study 88 nurses were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned into two groups of experimental and control (n=44). Then the experimental group was given a pocket guideline about nursing ethics codes. Before and after the intervention, the data was collected by a questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

The knowledge and attitude mean scores of the experimental group before and after training were 19.52+0.64, 17.71+0.59 and 27.55+0.52 and 23.9+0.54 respectively. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in the experimental group (p<0.000). Ethical Considerations: The study subject and method were approved by the Kerman University of Medical Sciences Ethics Committee. Written informed consent was signed by nurses and emphasized voluntary participation, information confidentiality, and withdrawal from the study at any time.

The results of this study showed that ethics codes teaching improved nurses' knowledge and attitude. Therefore, to improve the health services quality, the training of nursing ethics codes is suggested and should be considered as an important component of nursing education.